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Ted Weiland
@tedweiland.bsky.social
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Community College Chemistry Prof and outdoor enthusiast. Believer in community service. Occasional poster of long thoughts. Captive Iowan who hails from Wisconsin.
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Ted Weiland @tedweiland.bsky.social · Feb 3
The decisions in DC finally found their way to me.
Worst of all, it's likely to impact my students.
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Taking the Most from those who have the Least.
It finally happened. The choices made by the Trump Administration had finally reached me, in my little corner of academia. Community colleges aren't always considered part of that o...
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Ted Weiland @tedweiland.bsky.social · 11h
It helped me connect with people in my local community.
This led to finding a new group of friends, joining their running group, and participating in a relay run across my current state.
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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 1d
Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?
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Ted Weiland @tedweiland.bsky.social · 16h
... and the investment in the scientific infrastructure of the USA has demonstrated numerous benefits to not only the USA but the world at large.
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Laura Howes @laurahowes.bsky.social · 17h
Immigration is good, actually.
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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 17h
Six of the nine Nobel Prize winners this year work in the U.S.
Three of the six were born outside the U.S., which is the pattern most years. No country has benefited more from welcoming immigrants from around the world.
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The official website of the Nobel Prize - NobelPrize.org
The Nobel Prize rewards science, humanism and peace efforts. This is one of the central concepts in the will of Alfred Nobel, and it also permeates the outreach activities that have been developed for...
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Ted Weiland @tedweiland.bsky.social · 7d
My dad studied applied electronics in college and I have his trig based slide rule. It sits in my office and I pull it out occasionally and look at it like a mildly confused orangutan.
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Ted Weiland @tedweiland.bsky.social · 7d
Every time I pick up a guitar I’m reminded that I am not proficient.
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Ted Weiland @tedweiland.bsky.social · 7d
I can remember taking math exams in high school in two parts: one without a calculator and one with. You’d submit the first one to get the calculator for the second part.

I can also remember taking some calculus exams without a calculator as well.
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 7d
We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
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Ted Weiland @tedweiland.bsky.social · 8d
Evergreen.
a man in a dark room with the words " the truth is these are not very bright guys "
Alt: a man in a dark parking garage with the words " the truth is these are not very bright guys and things got outta hand."
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Ted Weiland @tedweiland.bsky.social · 9d
*shudders*
Memories of getting the kinetics settings on the stopped flow finally correct and refusing to move until I collected all the data I could before exhaustion overtook me.
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Ted Weiland @tedweiland.bsky.social · 9d
Happy National Coffee Day!
A picture of a beaker mug with both mL and Oz measurements on it. It is full of black coffee with a small amount of foam on the top.
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Ted Weiland @tedweiland.bsky.social · 12d
The Golden Path is taking a weird turn.
#TheSpiceMustFlow
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The Onion @theonion.com · 12d
Limbless, Slippery RFK Jr.: ‘Becoming An Eel Is A Sign Of Good Health’ https://theonion.com/limbless-slippery-rfk-jr-becoming-an-eel-is-a-sign-of-good-health/
Limbless, Slippery RFK Jr.: ‘Becoming An Eel Is A Sign Of Good Health’
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Lyz @lyz.bsky.social · 12d
With democrats like these who needs republicans? lyz.substack.com/p/anti-knot-...
Dingus of the Week: *takes drag of cigarette* fine, it’s Ezra Klein
I saw Goody Proctor getting health care!
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Ted Weiland @tedweiland.bsky.social · 14d
Extra fresh gloves in my pockets.
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Ted Weiland @tedweiland.bsky.social · 14d
If you see this, post a concert picture that you took.
Yellow light streams from the stage at the Bon Iver concert near Chicago in October of 2019.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 14d
Nah. Imma fight.
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Ted Weiland @tedweiland.bsky.social · 15d
Ok, this one is good.
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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 15d
THE RAPTURE IS HAPPENING*

*because of the 2026 FIFA World Cup?
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Andre the Chemist @andrechemist.bsky.social · 16d
Dear students,
Please complete all your work this week BEFORE you are expecting to be raptured. I will not accept "being left behind" as a valid excuse for late assignment submissions.
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Ted Weiland @tedweiland.bsky.social · 16d
homer simpson is standing in front of a pink house
Alt: Homer Simpson is standing in front of a pink house with a look of abject horror, followed by his pupils disintegrating and falling to the bottom of his eyeballs. His internal janitor walks across with a push broom and sweeps up the mess into a dustpan.
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Ted Weiland @tedweiland.bsky.social · 16d
"A budget is a moral document."
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Akshat Rathi @akshatrathi.bsky.social · 16d
New report says, if rich countries want, they have more than enough money to fund climate action: $6.6 trillion annually oilchange.org/publications...
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Ted Weiland @tedweiland.bsky.social · 18d
Grave of the Fireflies.
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EL-P @el-p.bsky.social · 18d
name a flick other than requiem for a dream that you will never watch again not because you think its trash but more because you just cant put yourself through it again
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Ted Weiland @tedweiland.bsky.social · 19d
Reminds me of this clip.
youtu.be/pf7aoj_Xcs0?...
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Bebo, Chicago Rat Czar 🐀 @bebopott.bsky.social · 19d
HARDEST PHOTO OF 2025 JUST DROPPED
Curtis Evans, of Evanston, a military veteran USMC intelligence during President Reagan’s era, carries a U.S. Flag through gas deployed by federal officers as they clear protesters from the entrance of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview on Sept. 19, 2025. (Stacey Wescott/Chicago Tribune)
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Ted Weiland @tedweiland.bsky.social · 20d
It's humbling to realize that the Nirvana and AIC shirts represent a longer passage of time then when I wore a Led Zeppelin shirt as a college freshman.
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It's Trevor! @newbornstranger.bsky.social · 20d
Just one 7 minute episode with an AI version of Diego Luna recanting his sins against the Emperor.
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